Comments on: Where was God when Haiti Shook? http://bradleyaharmon.com/2010/01/where-was-god-when-haiti-shook/ Becoming the Best Me I Can Be Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:08:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Brad Harmon http://bradleyaharmon.com/2010/01/where-was-god-when-haiti-shook/#comment-1352 Brad Harmon Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:34:35 +0000 http://bradleyaharmon.com/?p=3191#comment-1352 Thank God we cannot know His mind for who would want to serve a god that we can fully understand? At the same time, it can be frustrating to make sense of what He allows to happen here on earth. In one of the most harsh stories in the Bible, Job is scolded by God after having suffered unthinkable tragedies. God did not explain Himself to Job, and He isn't going to allow us to explain Him either. Those who try are just fools speaking to hear the sound of their own voice. Thank God we cannot know His mind for who would want to serve a god that we can fully understand? At the same time, it can be frustrating to make sense of what He allows to happen here on earth. In one of the most harsh stories in the Bible, Job is scolded by God after having suffered unthinkable tragedies.

God did not explain Himself to Job, and He isn’t going to allow us to explain Him either. Those who try are just fools speaking to hear the sound of their own voice.
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]]> By: LEN GANDY http://bradleyaharmon.com/2010/01/where-was-god-when-haiti-shook/#comment-1225 LEN GANDY Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:34:23 +0000 http://bradleyaharmon.com/?p=3191#comment-1225 Why are people stuck on the thought of God punishing others when it is a fact of life that the islands and the coast are not safe for men to live. That's common since. The islands were used for making money through slavery, not a place that we should go to retire. Earthquakes are fact of life, the same as burping. Do you blame God when you burp? Just as Brad said above, we are not in a place to judge anyone, we are blessed to be here ourselves. Let God be God and you be you all and don't go by what you read, judge that yea be not judged. WHO are you to wonder where God is at any time? Are you greater than God? Does God owe you anthing? Where was God when Haiti Shook? The same place he has always been "everywhere!" The same place he was during Katrina, Ritat, Camille, Ivan, Pompei, Mt St Helens, etc... Why are people stuck on the thought of God punishing others when it is a fact of life that the islands and the coast are not safe for men to live. That's common since. The islands were used for making money through slavery, not a place that we should go to retire. Earthquakes are fact of life, the same as burping. Do you blame God when you burp? Just as Brad said above, we are not in a place to judge anyone, we are blessed to be here ourselves. Let God be God and you be you all and don't go by what you read, judge that yea be not judged. WHO are you to wonder where God is at any time? Are you greater than God? Does God owe you anthing? Where was God when Haiti Shook? The same place he has always been "everywhere!" The same place he was during Katrina, Ritat, Camille, Ivan, Pompei, Mt St Helens, etc…

]]> By: Brad Harmon http://bradleyaharmon.com/2010/01/where-was-god-when-haiti-shook/#comment-1011 Brad Harmon Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:29:28 +0000 http://bradleyaharmon.com/?p=3191#comment-1011 I agree with you Alison, while God does judge the nations I don't think we are in a place to know the mind of God to be able to decree such judgments. I am sorry to hear about your friends in Florida who still have family members in Haiti. I can't imagine what they must be going through. I think if we are left to rely on only the things that we can fully understand about God then we are left with a tyrannical picture of Him. If, however, we accept the incomprehensible mind of God in light of His unfathomable love then we trust Him through faith that He does indeed make all things work together for good to those that love Him. I agree with you Alison, while God does judge the nations I don't think we are in a place to know the mind of God to be able to decree such judgments. I am sorry to hear about your friends in Florida who still have family members in Haiti. I can't imagine what they must be going through.

I think if we are left to rely on only the things that we can fully understand about God then we are left with a tyrannical picture of Him. If, however, we accept the incomprehensible mind of God in light of His unfathomable love then we trust Him through faith that He does indeed make all things work together for good to those that love Him.

]]> By: Brad Harmon http://bradleyaharmon.com/2010/01/where-was-god-when-haiti-shook/#comment-1010 Brad Harmon Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:46:56 +0000 http://bradleyaharmon.com/?p=3191#comment-1010 Psalm 139 is such a great passage about knowing the mind of God and the presence of God. Romans 8 is one of my all-time favorite passages where Paul waxes eloquently about how nothing can separate us from the love of God. It is such a comfort to know that a God that loves us beyond what we can comprehend, who is with us even when it doesn't seem possible, is still in control and works all things together for good to them that love Him despite our ability to understand or see how. Thanks for sharing these great passages. Psalm 139 is such a great passage about knowing the mind of God and the presence of God. Romans 8 is one of my all-time favorite passages where Paul waxes eloquently about how nothing can separate us from the love of God. It is such a comfort to know that a God that loves us beyond what we can comprehend, who is with us even when it doesn't seem possible, is still in control and works all things together for good to them that love Him despite our ability to understand or see how. Thanks for sharing these great passages.

]]> By: Brad Harmon http://bradleyaharmon.com/2010/01/where-was-god-when-haiti-shook/#comment-1009 Brad Harmon Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:31:48 +0000 http://bradleyaharmon.com/?p=3191#comment-1009 I agree that his timing was definitely off, but he has shown a pattern of insensitivity when disaster strikes. There's a fine line between discernment and hubris, and I think he has willfully crossed that line over and over again. He reminds me of Job's friends that blamed some hidden sin that Job must have committed for the calamities that he suffered, or like those that blamed the sins of the parents for the blindness of the man Jesus healed. God causes the rain to fall on the just and the unjust, and to claim to know the motives of God is a level of hubris for which I hope never to have to give an answer to God. I agree that his timing was definitely off, but he has shown a pattern of insensitivity when disaster strikes. There's a fine line between discernment and hubris, and I think he has willfully crossed that line over and over again. He reminds me of Job's friends that blamed some hidden sin that Job must have committed for the calamities that he suffered, or like those that blamed the sins of the parents for the blindness of the man Jesus healed. God causes the rain to fall on the just and the unjust, and to claim to know the motives of God is a level of hubris for which I hope never to have to give an answer to God.

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